Hybrid Journals in Transformative Agreements: German Open Access Monitor
How open are hybrid journals in transformative agreements? This dashboard highlights the Open Access uptake in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements as listed by the German Open Access Monitor. You can analyse progress made over time by open license, publisher and country. You can also monitor the availability of publisher-provided metadata in Crossref.
The share of Open Access articles with a Creative Commons license in hybrid journals exposed by the German Open Access Monitor from the FZ Jülich is as follows:
2017-2022
| Global | Germany |
| 10.7% | 35.5% |
| 385K out of 3.6Mio | 63K out of 178K |
2021
| Global | Germany |
| 16% | 65.9% |
| 112K out of 698K | 23K out of 35K |
Only journal articles from lead authors based in Germany were considered. A lead author is the first named author of a scholarly article who has usually undertaken most of the research presented in the article, although author roles can vary across discipline. We used OpenAlex as data source to determine lead author affiliation.
Open Licensing
Open access articles in hybrid journals are usually published under an Creative Commons license, preferably the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY). The ESAC guidelines and an increasing number of transformative agreements request that publishers register Creative Commons licensing information in their Crossref metadata. The following charts draw on this information to showcase the percentage of Creative Commons licensed open access articles over time by license type and publisher.
Creative Commons licenses over time
Percentage of Open Access in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements by Creative Commons license types as provided by Crossref.
Creative Commons licenses over time by publisher
Percentage of Open Access in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements by Creative Commons license types and Top 13 publishers in terms of total articles published between 2017 and 2022.
Publishing Market
Hybrid journal portfolio analysis, showing publishing market shares in terms of total and Open Access article volume. Note that only hybrid journals included in transformative agreements are shown.
Publisher League
This interactive table highlights the hybrid Open Access publisher output by year, sorted . It shows the number and proportion of Open Access articles provided under a Creative Commons license in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements. The table also illustrates the number of hybrid journals per portfolio, which published articles in the year, and the corresponding percentage of hybrid journals with at least one Open Access article. You can filter by publisher, publication year, and between a global and a country-specific view relative to lead author publications from Germany.
Open Access in Hybrid Journals by Country
Percentage of Open Access Articles with a Creative Commons license per country. Showing the Top 20 most productive countries in terms of articles published in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements between 2017 and 2022.
Country League
Publication volume in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements and Open Access share per country. You can search for specific countries, and filter by publisher and publication year.
License Metadata Gaps
Comparision of license metadata in Crossref with Unpaywall per year. Additionally to Crossref license information, Unpaywall also parses publisher websites to determine whether an article was published under an open content license.
Crossref Metadata Coverage
This interactive table shows the the proportion of Crossref metadata that is publicly available for Open Access articles in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements. Publishers can use Crossref to share links to full-texts for text-mining purposes, persistent links to authors (ORCID) and funder information. They can also open up abstracts and reference lists through Crossref.
Journal Table
This table presents the publication volume and Open Access share by journal between 2017 and 2022, comparing global metrics with metrics just for Germany. Charts show the yearly Open Access share. You can search for journals or select a table header to sort by journal name or a metric.
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